Symposium – The Humboldt Effect V: Feeding the Fire

The Humboldt Effect V: Feeding the Fire* is a series of encounters organized as part of the Archive Alexandre de Humboldt Montréal exhibition. This event seeks to open up new critical spaces for reflection and sharing, between disciplines and between the southern and northern hemispheres. Forms and sources of knowledge are discussed without hierarchy, combining the viewpoints and expertise of artists, curators, authors and researchers in art, museology, anthropology and cultural studies, from Quebec, Latin America and Europe.

Research is put forward as a means of coming together, beyond physical and theoretical boundaries, to feed a collective fire. It’s a fire by which we seek to shed light on preoccupying issues for art and beyond: the relationship between humans and nature, territory and ecology, transcending the imperatives of the global market, as well as the development of decolonial approaches to the production, conservation and valorization of knowledge, particularly within museums.

This 3-day public program, from November 23 to 25, is free upon registration and will be held at the OBORO artists’ center and at UQAM, in Salle Pierre-Bourgault. The symposium is organized in partnership with artist-run center OBORO, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art and UQAM’s Laboratoire d’art et de recherche décoloniaux (LabARD), with the collaboration of UQÀM, the Groupe de recherche et de réflexion CIÉCO, Équipe Art et musée and Cinéma Public. The program also includes an evening of film screenings and book presentations.

^{_{*The Humboldt Effect: Performing Ideas was created by the artist Fabiano Kueva and the curator Ana Rodriguez Ludeña in 2018. The Humboldt Effect V: Feeding the Fire, Montreal 2023 is directed by the curator Emmanuelle Choquette and the artist Fabiano Kueva.}}

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE

(All activities are free with previous registration / visit the artist's website)

Thursday, November 23, 2023 at OBORO

Opening Night

Free visit of the exhibition Archive Alexander de Humboldt Montréal

3:30 pm: Introduction, Tamar Tembeck, Artistic Director, OBORO

Projection of the complete film Ensayo geopoético (1 h 40 min)

5:30 pm – 7 pm: Opening Cocktail

Friday November 24, 2023 at l’UQÀM, Pavillon Judith-Jasmin, Salle Pierre-Bourgault, J-1450

ECOLOGIES BEYOND COLONIALITY (FR & ENG)
9 am: Welcome, coffee, tea

9:30 am: Introduction, Fabiano Kueva, Artist; Eduardo Kohn, Prof. Anthropology, McGill University; Joanna Page, Prof. Latin American Studies, Cambridge University; Laboratoire d’art et de recherche décoloniaux (labARD), UQÀM

Round table moderated by Nuria Carton de Grammont, Director, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art

12 pm – 1 pm: Lunchbreak

MUSEUM AS TRIGGER (FR & ENG)

1:30 pm: Introduction, Emmanuelle Choquette, Curator

Mélanie Boucher, Prof. UQO, Director of CIÉ/CO Research Group; Geneviève Chevalier, Artist, Prof. Université Laval, CIÉ/CO Research Group Member; Sandra Rozental, Prof. Autónoma Metropolitana University, Mexico

Round table moderated by David Blankenstein

3:30 pm: Break

3:45 pm: Open discussion moderated by Emmanuelle Choquette (FR)

Barbara Clausen, Prof. Art History, UQÀM; Michèle Magema, Artist

GALLERY AS A TRIGGER at SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art

5:30 pm: Jam session with labARD

6:30 pm: Guided visit of the exhbition of labARD

7:30 pm: Cocktail

Saturday, November 25, 2023 at l’UQÀM, Pavillon Judith-Jasmin, Salle Pierre-Bourgault, J-1450

PERFORMATIVES PERSPECTIVES (Eng)

9 am: Welcome, coffee, tea

10 am: Introduction, Emmanuelle Choquette, Curator (ENG)

Émilie Monnet and Waira Jacanamijoy Mutumbajoy, Artists; Tania Mancheno, Associate Researcher, University of Hamburg; Marion Pfaus, Authoress and Filmmaker

Round table by Emmanuelle Choquette

BOOK PRESENTATIONS / FILM SCREENINGS at Casa d’Italia

5 pm: Book Presentations

Joanna Page, Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art, Open Book Publishers, 2023; Tania Mancheno, Dekoloniale Perspectiven, VSA Verlag, 2023; David Blankenstein, The Humboldt Brothers: stories from the present, Prestel – Humboldt Forum, 2022; Geneviève Chevalier, 2023

6 pm: Film Screenings

Marion Pfauss, RÜCKBAU 21, 2011 é 2023, 20 min.; Émilie Monnet and Waira Jacanamijoy Mutumbajoy, Nigamontunay, 2013 – 2023, 20 min.; Sandra Rozental and Jesse Lerner, The Absent Stone, 2013, 81 min.